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Date:      Sat, 16 Jun 2001 10:58:20 -0700
From:      Rich Morin <rdm@cfcl.com>
To:        freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   [Apple]RE: Mundie, Perens, GPL, BSD etc again
Message-ID:  <p05100317b7514b5112b1@[192.168.168.205]>
In-Reply-To: <p05100300b750fc065f21@[194.78.241.123]>
References:  <20010616080451.84356.qmail@web13609.mail.yahoo.com> <p05100300b750fc065f21@[194.78.241.123]>

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At 2:35 PM +0200 6/16/01, Brad Knowles wrote:
>They're still a world apart, and seem to be weathering the economic
>downturn far better than any other PC manufacturer I know:

I was at the press conference in Cupertino when Apple announced the
release of Mac OS X.  One of the questions was how Apple was going to
deal with the economic downturn.  Steve responded that Apple was in
the fortunate position of having a couple of billion dollars on hand
and no real debt, so they planned to sail right through it, doing the
long-term things they needed to do.

Speaking for myself, I am happy to pay Apple a bit extra if it allows
them to do the kind of R&D that produces nice machines and OSes, stay
out of trouble in recessions, etc.

-r
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